Strategies and policies for easing the transition back to work after parental leave.

For this guide, we focused our lens beyond leave and dove deeply into how companies can support parents throughout the long journey of returning to work after leave. Forget foosball - with tech's core millennial workforce now aging into the parenthood years, family friendliness is the new way to attract and retain talent.

In this playbook we cover:

Tried, tested and true strategies for creating a parent friendly workplace, from real parents in tech and beyond.

The parenting playbook developed as a series of conversations in the year after launching The Expecting Playbook (2017), a guide and pledge program focused on helping companies in Canada's tech community create and share meaningful parental leave policies. The Expecting Playbook helped launch many a parental leave policy, helping both founders and expecting parents navigate the challenges of balancing work and new babies.

Written and Researched by:

Nora Jenkins Townson

Amanda Munday

Supported by the team at Fireside

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